‘Thank you, I’m a big fan of your work!’: A woman’s emotional reunion with the neonatologist who saved her life

Freyja Wadlow-Smith and her mother went out of their way to give thanks to the doctor who saved her life as a baby.
Freyja Wadlow-Smith (left) and Dr Umesh Vaidya.

Back in 1995 Dr Umesh Vaidya saved a life that had barely begun.

He had been the neonatologist who resuscitated Freyja when she and her sister Imogen had been born with twin-to-twin transfusion at Westmead Hospital in Sydney.